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Perhaps the most enduringly influential painter of the Italian Renaissance, and the epitome of Venetian sensuality and color, Titian has inspired fanatical devotion in painters from Rubens to
Velasquez, Rembrandt and beyond...

Titian (born Pieve di Cadore, circa 1485-1576) began his career as an apprentice
to
Giorgione, and soon became the most important of the Venetian painting school. He died in his late 80s, a victim of the Venice plague--the only victim to be given a church burial...